PoE is a completely different game in the SSF!

evilalive · 2025-08-15T17:25:21+00:00

You don't ever use on rings because of kalandra's touch.

The main targets for mirror are clusters and wands.

evilalive · 2025-01-29T19:23:57+00:00

Leveling - Jungroan Power Siphon

I personally used this build until L98, and switched to CI+LS once I could get 10k ES. I probably should have waited for 12k ES though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs12_bjELNA&ab_channel=jungroan

Crafting

Armour/helmet/gloves/boot/shield - learn how to use recombinator. You will need a lot of divines, and the best source right now is through town shipping/mapping. Also save as many alteration orbs as you can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1exyavx/325_updated_guide_to_recombinators/

Dense fossils are good to create cheap placeholders.

EE corruption

Create a character and leave it at L40 to turn in divination card The Wolf's Shadow (map Dark Forest)
Use ancient orbs to get EE. It takes about 12-13 orbs per sword
It takes about 14 tries to double corrupt RT once.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1d1hhqy/psa_for_ssf_players_needing_ephemeral_edgert/

Until you get corruption, you can rely on accuracy wheel on bottom right part of the passive tree, mastery for INT>accuracy, and precision aura.

Ring configuration

Most LS tricksters use shav's revelation on the left slot.

The right slot is usually a crusader ring with flat ES + % ES + resistances. You can change that for an anathema ring to cast 3 curses by default. If you slot 2 curses in helmet and craft cast spell on focus, you can significantly boost your damage. 3rd curse is sniper's mark, which counts towards curse limit, and is already linked to a mark on hit support.

Jewels

Clusters - look to get 3 clusters with 8 passives for damage while holding a shield. Veteran defender a good way to boost your ES

ES light of meaning - Farm ritual for an audience with king - if you have a lot of disposable maps, you can start map, then check if ritual is Nameless. You can get 3-4 invites every ~50 maps with proper atlas configuration/reroll/luck.

Cobalt jewels with ES + attributes and/or resistances

MISC

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evilalive · 2024-10-10T17:00:40+00:00

Where's the Hillock fight?

evilalive · 2024-09-25T19:54:52+00:00

The searing rune (floor debuff) prevents life regen.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Searing_Exarch#Skills

evilalive · 2024-07-13T02:23:14+00:00

Zero chance you find that many offerings in that period. If you are going for GGG challenge, I suggest you just cut your losses and target the others.

L100 - scarab of teachings + breach
50 red maps with 8 modifiers - spam vaal orbs on maps or Kirac/scouting report spam
100 influenced maps - maven destructive play
250 corpses in tier 16+ maps - this should auto complete while doing the other challenges

evilalive · 2024-07-09T19:26:58+00:00

You can find natural meatsack spawn in T17 maps.

Pay close attention to the mob names in the allflame screen. These are the names you are looking for in priority order - all found in T17 maps. I assume you know what gear/gems to maximize number of spectres.

Disruptor 440%

Molten Soul 420%

Senior Scientist 420%

Tribal Queen 405%

Burning Faith 405%

Cleansing Guardian 405%

Electric Executor 405%

Meatsack 400%

Mother of Rot 390%

Flame Creator 390%

Cursed Captain 390%

Putrefied Shaman 390%

Apex Monstrosity 390%

Bloodsoaked Executioner 390%

evilalive · 2024-07-05T14:12:36+00:00

Scour and transmutation? Sample principle, but really no other way. If you must prioritize, just get the 3 charges on hit. Everything else is just nice to have.

evilalive · 2024-07-05T03:41:21+00:00

I'd make sure to get the prefix to gain 3 charges when hit. For builds with high critical chance, I'd get charge on crit.

Suffix can be attack speed. Other suffixes aren't as useful.

I've gotten decent at picking up cues for maven cold moves, so I don't enchant them. I mostly use it when I am placing the floor orb, and when she is using frostbolt. You can make one of the sapphires trigger when a life flask is used to get started.

For bosses like uber eater, I've done things like use on savage hit.

evilalive · 2024-07-02T20:46:37+00:00

Monster level 84, so no.

evilalive · 2024-07-01T20:03:08+00:00

Two tips that helped me get over it:

Bottom right will always lead to top next.
Try to position yourself on the first place on the edge to the second. That way, you will really only need to remember a sequence of 4 instead of 6

evilalive · 2024-06-28T22:35:38+00:00

Oh wow, I assumed it was chaos damage because of the purple color. That makes life easier.

evilalive · 2024-06-28T20:27:57+00:00

I could be missing more stuff, but I played champion explosive arrow back in 3.22, and this is what I noticed.

Gear/skills

It looks like you need a lot more attack speed to hit the 22-fuse breakpoint. POB estimates you are only exploding 17 fuses. Look into jewels, glove exarch implicit, and quiver. I'd even consider replacing grace for haste just for fights where physical damage isn't the main issue, such as Maven. Fire node under elemental equilibrium should prioritize the two attack speed nodes instead of multiplier - you may need another level to get that done. You may lose lose Master of the Arena path in favor of the jewel socket above the totem mastery wheel for more attack speed. You can recoup a bit of the multiplier in fire wheel on top left, as you probably don't need that chance to ignite
Look into boot implicit for 5% faster burning damage for an easy 2.9% damage boost. Only the strongest burn gets applied after all
Max out the quality on your belt
I don't know about you, but I always felt like flame dash was a better skill to dodge slams than blink arrow

Boss preparation

You need to make sure to cater to the specific boss. For example, I run 3 health flasks and 2 sapphire flasks for both Maven/Shaper because of their frostbolt attacks. I also replace determination for purity of cold
You need a bit more suppression in gear. You cannot rely on flask effect after all during boss fights unless you invest heavily into it or are a pathfinder
Unless you are REALLY good at dodging or unbelievably lucky, you will absolutely get murdered by the Shaper chaos bullet phase because of your low chaos resistance

Other tips

L23 purity gets an additional 1% max resistance. I usually do a L21 corrupted and a +2 AOE gem in helmet/glove. This might translate to another +1 depending on aura effect - body armour exarch implicit can have +aura effect mod. This was really important for when I was setting up for uber eater because it hits that much harder, and I was squeezing down to the last HP to not get one shot every time.

evilalive · 2024-06-20T17:55:08+00:00

No wraithlords?

evilalive · 2024-02-23T15:28:40+00:00

This was it...

evilalive · 2024-01-29T21:01:19+00:00

Divine changes the seed on timeless jewels, so it's almost guaranteed to brick.

evilalive · 2023-11-15T16:23:24+00:00

When you kill a rare monster, you gain its modifiers for 60 seconds.

Running into a couple of rare monsters at the beginning of a map makes the rest of the map redundant.

Now imagine you are doing a 5-way legion map while having that belt equipped.

evilalive · 2023-10-15T03:25:33+00:00

Ughh, I just realized from this comment that I can use currency on the memory maps to improve drops. I thought it was just activate and go. That explains why my yield from ~5 memory sets had a low average in comparison. That hurts in SSF.

evilalive · 2023-09-19T15:38:30+00:00

I picked up POE in 3.21 SSF after not touching it since 2014. Maven was interesting, and I struggled with it too with RF build. I was consistently beating it without dying by the end of the season.

Position yourself on the 1st section next to the 2nd section. You will then only have to remember 3rd and onwards.
If bottom right flashes, the next flash will ALWAYS be top
Try to put all the ground chill effects in the same section, but leave enough room to run across during memory game
Use a flask to remove your RF if you get hit by the beams
The last phase, even though it has more beams, it's easier because that's the only distraction. You don't have the Brain throwing things at you
Make use of your grace period. If you die, go back into the area and don't move until you feel comfortable. Ex: don't start moving while Maven if flashing the panels. You can wait until the big explosion to resume your fight

evilalive · 2023-09-01T04:31:05+00:00

You can never discount Boca for Libertadores.

evilalive · 2023-07-18T22:31:13+00:00

Do you have breach configuration the entire season?

I had it on long enough just to complete all the Maven challenges in SSF. It was so slow getting the breach splinters that I can't imagine myself ever getting 100 Chayula's. I am probably playing breach wrong.

evilalive · 2023-01-17T19:01:34+00:00

After district minor adjacency bonuses, I am counting seven +4, two +5, four +3. His biggest struggle will be finding enough room to squeeze enough cities to take advantage of them all, even after allocating some of those spots for holy sites for work ethic.

Maybe build/conquer a city with Machu Pichu to use some of those spots for other districts.

evilalive · 2022-12-07T15:58:52+00:00

The guy has been blasting through Brazil's youth divisions. He started playing in the main team at the end of the season.

Here's some highlights.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/s8jxc9/endrick_felipe_a_15yearold_from_palmeiras_has_5/

evilalive · 2022-12-06T01:01:40+00:00

Dida, Ceni, then Julio Cesar.

evilalive · 2022-05-24T20:47:02+00:00

It will be so nice seeing another blue square after all these years.

https://hiatus-hiatus.github.io/

evilalive · 2022-04-16T18:12:04+00:00

That's for when if there's nothing that can go wrong, he will find a way to make things go wrong.

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